Hamlet and Tobit are not authoritative scripture.
Yes we are to pray but never are we told to pray to anyone but God. Never. Show me one instance in Scripture of Christ or the apostles addressing prayer to anyone but God. You can’t.
Christ is the only mediator between God and man period. There is no wiggle room in that verse.
Im still waiting for scripture to prove otherwise.
So, in chapter 16 of Saint Paul to the Roman,... http://drbo.org/chapter/52016.htm ...Paul says to salute these people who worked for Christ. But you say, as soon as they “have run their race” and secured themselves to Christ through a Holy death, why then we can’t salute them in victory (veneration)? Nor ask them to pray for us as we could in life (petition)? Those who are one Spirit in Christ? And they call Catholics rigid, narrow and mean?
Look at how you narrowed the parameters, I went from searching the Old and New Testament, to you cutting off books of the Old Testament, to you cutting off all examples that aren’t limited to Christ and the twelve Apostles, not just saying to pray to the Saints but actually doing it! If I should say, look at the Transfiguration, Christ giving us the example of talking to Saints after their death, why you will say that doesn’t count, that was under the old Law. If you have to move the goalpost like that to “win” your argument,... you already lost it.